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Bug 8374 - Pointless parse error when an act as if </select> causes a parse error in the fragment case
Summary: Pointless parse error when an act as if </select> causes a parse error in the...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Reported: 2009-11-25 12:39 UTC by Henri Sivonen
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:46 UTC (History)
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Description Henri Sivonen 2009-11-25 12:39:25 UTC 
The parse error caused by an act as if </select> had been seen when <select> is not in scope is pointless, because whatever triggers the "as if" already triggers a parse error.
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-01-06 09:11:10 UTC 
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Status: Did Not Understand Request
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: I looked at all the places where a "select" end tag is implied, but I couldn't see anything that looked like what you are referring to here. Could you elaborate?